Kafka and Cinema

The Trial

2 hr. 16 min. | Drama | Pegi 13

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In his interpretation of The Trial, director Algimantas Puipa depicts Jozef K. as a cinephile watching the adventures of Chaplin and Lloyd in the cinema hall. The cinema becomes a hiding place for Jozef K., where the officials nevertheless appear and do not leave him alone. According to Puipa, "Joseph K.'s comic guilt lies in his sanity, in his healthy human reactions to an absurd act".

Algimantas Puipa

Algimantas Puipa

Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography and soon made the film The Day of Retribution (1975) together with director Stasys Motiejūnas. Puipa's independent creative biography began with a screen adaptation of O'Henry's novels - the witty, playful TV film I won't be a gangster, darling (1978). Since then, Puipa has made 21 feature-length films. Many of them have won prizes at international film festivals.
Languages
Lithuanian
Subtitles
English
Original title
Procesas
Produced
1994: Lithuania

Film information

Director
Algimantas Puipa
Screenplay
Franz Kafka, Algimantas Puipa
Music
Juozas Širvinskas
Cinematography
Zigmas Gružinskas
Cast
Kostas Smoriginas, Vytautas Paukštė, Vidas Petkevičius
More information
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Screenings

Sunday, 10 November

14:00

Forum Cinemas Kaune · 5

Past screening

Tuesday, 12 November

20:00

Arlekinas · Hall 1

Past screening

Wednesday, 13 November

20:30

Skalvija · Hall 1

Past screening

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